MESSUAGE

This term 1s now synonymous with "dwelling-house," but had once a more extended signification. It is frequently used in deeds, in descrlblng the premises. Marmet Co. v. Archibald, 37 W. Va. 778, 17 S. E. 300; Grimes v. Wilson, 4 Blackf. (Ind.) 333·; Derby v. Jones, 27 Me. 360; Davis v. Lowden, 56 N. J. Eq. 126, 38 Atl. 648. Although the word "me uage" may, there is no nece ity that it must, import more than the word "dwelling-house," with which word it is frequently put in apposition and used synonymously. 2 Bing. N. C. 617. In Scotland, The principal dwelling house within a barony. Bell. MESTIZO, A mongrel or person of mixed blood; sometim~ used as equivalent to "octoroon," that is, the child of a white per- 11on and a quadroon, sometimes as denoting a person. one of w.hose parents was a Spaniard ·and the other an American Indlan. MET.A., [at. A goal, bound, or turning-Point. Iii old English law, the term wall_ used: to·'detlote''a>bodiid or· bOundaey 11.iJe of' [s. 782]